Manley's First Budget Offers
$22.9 Billion to Health Care

By

Joel Baglole Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 19, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

OTTAWA -- Canada's government unveiled a wide-ranging fiscal budget Tuesday, the centerpiece of which was an allocation of $34.8 billion Canadian dollars ($22.9 billion) over five years to improve the country's ailing health-care system.

"Today we have taken serious steps forward in our quest to build the society that Canadians value, the economy Canadians need and the accountability Canadians deserve," Finance Minister John...